Many years ago I found myself aboard a small Dutch cargo ship, the Van Riebeck, travelling from Nairobi to Kuwait with my 4-yr old brother and our parents(...(When we reached Muscat, the capital of Oman, it was closed to foreigners so the few passengers on the ship had to stay on board(…) This “almost visit” of Muscat rankled a bit, so recently when an opportunity arose for me to spend a few days there, I phoned my brother and asked if he and his wife would like to join me to right this wrong.